Spectral Properties of the Weakly Coupled Fibonacci Hamiltonian

Speaker: 

Anton Gorodetski

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

We consider the spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian for small
values of the coupling constant. It is known that this set is a Cantor set
of zero Lebesgue measure. We show that as the value of the coupling constant
approaches zero, the thickness of this Cantor set tends to infinity, and,
consequently, its Hausdorff dimension tends to one. Moreover, the length of
every gap tends to zero linearly. Finally, for sufficiently small coupling,
the sum of the spectrum with itself is an interval. The last result provides
a rigorous explanation of a phenomenon for the Fibonacci square lattice
discovered numerically by Even-Dar Mandel and Lifshitz. The proof is based
on a detailed study of the dynamics of the so called trace map. This is a
joint work with David Damanik.

A Criterion for Purely Absolutely Continuous Measures on Homogeneous Sets.

Speaker: 

Maxim Zinchenko

Institution: 

Caltech

Time: 

Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

Let $E$ be a homogeneous subset of $\mathbb{R}$ in the
sense of Carleson. Let $\mu$ be a finite positive measure on
$\mathbb{R}$ and $H_\mu(x)$ its Hilbert transform. We prove that
$\lim_{t\to\infty} t|E\cap\{x : |H_\mu(x)|>t\}|=0$ if and only if
$\mu_s(E)=0$, where $\mu_s$ is the singular part of $\mu$.

Cartan prolongation, Goursat distributions, Nash blow-up, Legendrian curves, and a car with trailers

Speaker: 

Michail Zhitomirskii

Institution: 

Technion, Israel

Time: 

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

Each of the items in the title is a big area with a number of known
results and open questions. I will explain that these areas are iso-
morphic. The talk is based on the following joint works with Richard Montgomery: Geometric approach to Goursat flags; Points and curves in the Monster tower; Resolving singularities with Cartans prolongation.

Quantum dynamics and decomposition of spectral measures with respect to Hausdorff measures

Speaker: 

Christoph Marx

Time: 

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

In this expository talk we relate the spectral properties of a discrete
Schr"odinger operator on a d-dimentional lattice to its dynamical
features. Dynamical quantities of interest include Fourier transforms of
spectral measures, time averaged moments of the position operator, as well
as time-averaged observables for a compact operator. The RAGE theorem in
its various formulations predicts the asymptotic behaviour of these
quantities for any state in the continuous subspace of the Hilbert space:
observables for a compact operator decay to zero, whereas the moments of
the position operator asymptotically diverge. In order to quantify this
decay/divergence, we present a decomposition of the spectral measure with
respect to Hausdorff measures of dimension $\alpha \in [0,1]$. This
decomposition due to Rogers and Taylor generalizes the classical
decomposition of the spectral measure w.r.t. Lebesgue measure into pure
point and continous component. Whereas for $\alpha = 1$ it recasts the
classical result, for $\alpha < 1$ one obtains a decomposition different
to the classical one. For each Hausdorff dimension, the spectral measure
then splits in an $\alpha$-continuous and an $\alpha$-singular component.
$\alpha$-continuous measures are shown to be limits of uniformly $\alpha$
H"older continuous (U$\alpha$H) measures w.r.t. to a suitable topology.
For U$\alpha$H spectral measures lower and upper bounds for various
dynamical quantities are available.

references:
Y. Last, Quantum dynamics and decompositions of singular continuous
spectra, J. Funct. Anal 142, 406-445 (1996).
W. Kirsch: An invitation to random Schr"odinger operators,
arXiv:0709.3707v1[math-ph].
G. Teschl: Mathematical Methods in Quantum mechanics with application to
Schroedinger operators, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Amer. Math. Soc.,
Providence, 2008. (to appear).

Proof of the HRT conjecture for special configurations

Speaker: 

Ciprian Demeter

Institution: 

Indiana University

Time: 

Monday, June 14, 2010 - 12:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

The strong HRT conjecture asserts that the time-frequency
translates of any nontrivial function in $L^2(\mathbb R)$ are linearly
independent. The weak HRT conjecture has the same formulation, but this time
for Schwartz functions. Prior to our work, the only result of a reasonably
general nature was Linnell's proof in the case when the translates belong to
a lattice.
I will first describe an alternative argument to Linnell's (joint work with
Zubin Gautam), inspired by the theory of random Schr\"odinger operators.
Then I will explore both some solo and joint work (with Zaharescu) involving
a number theoretical approach to the HRT conjecture, for some special 4
point configurations.

Reflectionless measures

Speaker: 

Christian Remling

Institution: 

University of Oklahoma

Time: 

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

Reflectionless measures are interesting objects because
they arise as limiting measures of spectral measures of arbitrary
Schr"odinger operators with some absolutely continuous spectrum.
In this talk, I'd like to review the definition and some background
material and then discuss more recent work, joint with Alexei Poltoratski,
on reflectionless measures.

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